What would a basic income cost in Mexico?
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Total cost per year
1.58 trillion Mexican pesos
about 82.3 billion US dollars
132 million people × 1,000 Mexican pesos a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)20.0%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)23.1%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)30.3%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)4.5%
Mexico in numbers
Mexico has a population of 132 million (2025) and a GDP of 35.3 trillion Mexican pesos (about 1.83 trillion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 1,000 Mexican pesos a month would cost 1.58 trillion Mexican pesos a year (about 82.3 billion US dollars), or 4.5% of GDP. That equals 20.0% of central government expense (2023), 23.1% of its revenue (2024), and 30.3% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 38.5 million) would cost 462 billion Mexican pesos a year (1.3% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 93.5 million), 1.12 trillion Mexican pesos (3.2%).
Default amount: 1,000 Mexican pesos a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Mexican pesos with the World Bank's PPP conversion factor for household consumption (2025) and rounded to two significant figures. It is a reference point, not a policy proposal; change it above.
How to read this
This is the gross cost: the total paid out. The real net cost depends on which taxes fund it, which benefits or tax breaks it replaces and whether the payment is taxed. The population, budget and GDP figures are not all from the same year (see the sources).
Sources for the figures
- Population
- World Bank: population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), and population by single year of age 0 to 17 (SP.POP.AG00.FE.IN … SP.POP.AG17.MA.IN), 2025
- SP.POP.AG00.FE.IN … SP.POP.AG17.MA.IN
- Government expense and tax revenue
- World Bank: central government expense, revenue excluding grants and tax revenue, % of GDP (GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS, GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS, GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS), 2023, 2024
- Default amount
- World Bank: international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), June 2025 update
- World Bank: PPP conversion factor, household final consumption (PA.NUS.PRVT.PP), 2025
- Retrieved from the World Bank API on November 9, 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Government figures are central government, as a share of GDP in their own year, applied to the latest GDP.